"I live in a small house with my parents and my brother and sister" In the sentence above, are supposed to use and article or a possessive pronoun before brother and sister ? ...or while talking about father... "I have a father.

Sentences like "I live with my parents and brother and sister" or while talking about fathers or mothers mentioning them time after time, do we use a definite article or are we supposed to use a possessive pronoun each time? e.g.

A friend of mine The end of the day I've got a present for you Those are example of prepositions. ( It ) is a pronoun, not a preposition. (The)  is either a definite article or adverb.

Whenever you say " a few of " (or " some of ", " a lot of ", etc) it has to be followed by one of the following: a definite article + plural noun phrase > the a plural object pronoun > us / you / them a

I recently used the following question on a quiz: A gentleman ________ I had never seen before smiled at me. The students were to put the relative pronoun in the first blank and then write whether it was a defining or non-defining relative

" the Samsung project" - "the" is required by English grammar rules - an article or pronoun (this, that, our, etc.) is placed in front of nouns. Many people have trouble with these little words! Here are some rules and examples

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

1a) We painted the red door. 1b) We painted the door red. 1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb

Hi, I think Mr.M said something like we use adjectives after a definite article in place of a pronoun in a lot of cases. I remember his example went something like this: In a bar: What would you have it? Or what would you like to have? The usual...

He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was